Who do you believe?

[hollodero]

(10-04-2019, 02:24 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Hell, I was among the first to concede that Strzok was just "talking big" to get laid. I just balked at the assertion that he was referring to the "American People" when he used the term "we" as that takes away from the assertion he was merely 'talking big". He was referring to him and his.

Cool concession. And fair enough, you're certainly not too prone to absurd conspiracies, that is something. Something seldom amongst folks from your political color these days. And these conspiracy affine folks are the ones that hold up this whole Strzok saga - as if he was that one pivotal guy who hated Trump so much that he steered the whole FBI in one anti-Trump direction like this all-powerful, yet morally depraved and rage-driven mastermind. It's just nonsense, nonsense that keeps getting cooked over and over again in all the right wing media as one of the more gruesome and irrational pro-Trump talking points.

-- And while you are the first to concede this whole narrative surrounding him is nonsense, you still discuss what he meant when he said "we" in a text to his gf years back (or whatever context, it's not important, also "we" could mean the brotherhood of Cthulhu for all I care) and bring this up as if it were some kind of important thing. To refute a post that in its essence says it exactly like it is, that this whole Strzok thing is a non-topic to begin with. And well, that is strange, even stranger for someone who made "getting over things from 2016" a central point of his grown-up, annoyed message hours ago. That deserves to be said, imho.

-- And on a technical, irrelevant note, what Strzok said about "stopping it" was not even "talking big", that's just him trying to be funny, it's honestly weird for me to assume otherwise. He wasn't trying to impress her. She's not an 18-year-old California beach dummy, but an FBI agent herself, probably quite smart for all indications, she didn't grant him sexual favors because he pretended to be that powerful FBI bigshot who can make these things happen. The only serious quarrel to be had is how funny it was. That's the sad within the sad, that even if taken seriously it could seriously only boil down to that.